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Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
American Novelist
Born: Jul 21, 1899
Died: Jul 2, 1961
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For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can. Ernest Hemingway
Time Best Good Better Sometimes Long Long Time Luck Good Luck Tried Write Simply Than Now
From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality. Ernest Hemingway
You Invention Enough Those Alive All Things Immortality Give Something Through True New Know Well Make Well Enough Truer Exist Than New Thing Representation Anything Happened Cannot Your Whole Thing Things
You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself. Ernest Hemingway
You Yourself Become Out Wipe Wiped Opponents Being Your Eligible
That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward. Ernest Hemingway
Depression Good Reward Mood Terrible Known Any Artist Whether
You see, I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across - not to just depict life - or criticize it - but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me, you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Ernest Hemingway
Life Beautiful Me You Experience Ugly Feeling Alive Bad Criticize See Something Putting Well Make Read Without Am Get Trying Just Depict Stories Across Actual Actually Thing
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. Ernest Hemingway
Book Mark Mark Twain One Book Huckleberry Huckleberry Finn American Modern Literature American Literature Twain
There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges. Ernest Hemingway
Sometimes Rule Easily Out Charges Drilling Write Blasting Perfectly Like Rock How Then
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it. Ernest Hemingway
Death Writing Become Once Pleasure Only Major Greatest Greatest Pleasure Stop Vice Your
No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. Ernest Hemingway
Problem Settled Moral Solution Weapon Impose Just Just One Cannot Ever Guarantee
All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time. Ernest Hemingway
Life Time Words My Life First Though All My Life Seeing Looked First Time Were Them
I rewrote the ending to 'Farewell to Arms,' the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I was satisfied. Ernest Hemingway
Ending Before Satisfied Arms Times Page Farewell Last
Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl. Ernest Hemingway
You Girl Somebody Looking Back Bad Someone Write Over Fishing Just While Shoulder Your Letter
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. Ernest Hemingway
Character People Writing Living Caricature Characters Writer Create Should Novel
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Ernest Hemingway
Time Natural Made Dust One Time More Wings He Talent Know Understood His Than Did Pattern Butterfly
I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes. Ernest Hemingway
War Me Men Long Few Nothing Living Other Settling Complete Foe Destructiveness Abolition More Both Know Rendered Method Friend Very Revolting Useless International Now Disputes
Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth. Ernest Hemingway
Death Wealth Fear Increase Increases Exact Proportion
Wars are caused by undefended wealth. Ernest Hemingway
War Wealth Caused Wars
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war. Ernest Hemingway
War Defeat Once Worse Must One Thing Only Only One Thing Won Than Any Happen Ever Thing Things Brings
There's no one thing that is true. They're all true. Ernest Hemingway
One Thing No-One True Thing
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other. Ernest Hemingway
Life Good Book Damn Other Enough Good Parts Wreck Something Only Writer Parts Overhear His May Whole Lucky
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. Ernest Hemingway
Best Down Aim Way Paper See Simplest Put Feel
A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book. Ernest Hemingway
Funny Man Book Punishment Write Take Got Lot Really
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention. Ernest Hemingway
Great Obligation Events Invention Assume Presumption Rather Write Writer Altering His Truly Than Which Them
Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up. Ernest Hemingway
Travel Writing Mind Broaden Write Like Up Your Standing Standing Up
When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you... Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you. Ernest Hemingway
War Time Great You People Illusion First Lose Other Wounded Immortality Badly Know First Time Boy Go Get Happen Then
The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. Ernest Hemingway
Great Game Sports Great Deal Lose Would Allowed Putting Deal Were Green Golf
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